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...previous five years. The lead author, Edward O. Laumann, a sociologist at the University of Chicago, estimated that two to four percent of ever-married American women had been in what are now called mixed-orientation marriages. While there are a myriad of complicated factors that could induce BGLT (bi-sexual, gay, lesbian and transgender) men and women to enter into heterosexual marriages, it is a tragedy when they do so because conservative religious environments force them to repress their sexual orientation...
...religious backgrounds, or even those from small towns in red states, college is an opportune time to come out. Harvard is arguably one of the most gay-friendly campuses, with an active Harvard Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) and other support groups like Contact. In addition, BGLT students can speak with BGLT professors, graduate students, other BGLT friends, or understanding straight friends. It would be a shame for these students to spend four years here, where there are so many great resources to help them figure out their sexuality, but fail...
...06—only this one is a little less red-headed and a lot less campy. She also has more political credentials, having chaired the Bisexual, Gay, Lesbian, Transgender, and Supporters Alliance (BGLTSA) for the last two years. Like Garland, though, she is a heterosexual pillar for a BGLT community...
...official tenure as a leader in the BGLT community over, Barusch’s influence among Harvard students has survived. Claiming they “not-so-secretly want to be/marry Barusch when they grow up,” 66 students have joined the Facebook group “Acolytes of Barusch...
...worthwhile on a political level. The film’s defense of alternative lifestyles (which, in this case, is not simply a code for “gay people”), its willingness to portray interracial relationships without drawing attention to them as such, its portrayal of non-stereotyped BGLT characters —all these elements and more make the film politically interesting. And “Rent” is, ignoring a few melodramatic excesses, a compelling and deeply moving piece of entertainment.And that’s the problem. “Rent” succeeds largely because...